A push-button, locking hinge assembly includes a base element, a push-button element, a cap element, an assembly to lock these three elements about a central axis, and a release assembly allowing the cap element to pivot 360 degrees transversely to the central axis and in relation to the base elemen
A push-button, locking hinge assembly includes a base element, a push-button element, a cap element, an assembly to lock these three elements about a central axis, and a release assembly allowing the cap element to pivot 360 degrees transversely to the central axis and in relation to the base element. Geometric ends of the hinge assembly allow insertion into any two components to be so releasably pivoted and repositioned, and then locked into a desired position relative one to the other.
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1. A push-button, locking hinge assembly comprising, in combination: a) a base element comprising: a solid cast geometric end comprising an internal recess sized to receive a resilient spring member; a cylindrical length comprising an external side and an internal side; a central longitudinal axis;
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A push-button, locking hinge assembly comprising, in combination: a) a base element comprising: a solid cast geometric end comprising an internal recess sized to receive a resilient spring member; a cylindrical length comprising an external side and an internal side; a central longitudinal axis; a cylindrical recess defined by the cylindrical length internal sides; an open end; a plurality of uniform cogs evenly spaced along the cylindrical length internal side from the open end so that each cog length is disposed equidistant from and parallel to the central longitudinal axis, and the cogs are sized to fit and receive cogs along a push-button cylindrical body external side; and an annular groove around the cylindrical length external side, the annular groove defining a plane transverse to the central longitudinal axis;b) a push-button element comprising: a cylindrical body comprising an external side and an internal side; a central longitudinal axis; an actuating end comprising a solid circular external surface and an internal surface; an open cylindrical end; a cylindrical recess defined by the cylindrical body internal sides; a plurality of cogs evenly spaced along the cylindrical body external side so that each cog length is disposed equidistant from and parallel to the cylindrical body central longitudinal axis; and an internal recess sized to receive a resilient spring member;c) a cap element comprising: a solid cast geometric end comprising a central opening on the end sized to receive the push button actuating end; a cylindrical length comprising an external side and an internal side; a central longitudinal axis; a cylindrical recess defined by the cylindrical length internal sides; an open end sized to receive and hold the base open end; a plurality of uniform cogs evenly spaced along the cylindrical length internal side from the cap element end comprising a central opening to receive the push button actuating end so that each cog length is disposed equidistant from and parallel to the central longitudinal axis, and the cogs are sized to fit and receive the cogs along the push-button cylindrical body external side; and an annular groove around the cylindrical length internal side, the annular groove defining a plane transverse to the base central longitudinal axis and sized to receive and hold the O-ring received within the annular groove around the cylindrical length external side;d) an O-ring sized to be received within (i) the annular groove around the base cylindrical length external side, and (ii) the annular groove around the cap cylindrical length internal side, the O-ring serving to provide a pivot surface between the base element and the cap element; ande) a resilient spring longitudinally disposed around the central longitudinal axes of the push-button, base and cap, and sized to be received by and engage the base internal recess and to be received by and engage the push-button internal recess, thus implementing restorative force to the push-button position after a depression force on the push-button actuating end external surface is released;wherein the push-button, locking hinge assembly provides a locking feature when a push-button element actuating surface is in a disengaged, neutral position and the push-button element cogs simultaneously engage the base element cogs and the cap element cogs preventing any pivot between the base element and the cap element about the central longitudinal; axis;wherein the push-button, locking hinge assembly provides a 360 degree pivot feature around the O-ring between the cap element and the base element, the pivot action being along a plane transverse to the central longitudinal axis and about the central longitudinal axis, when the push-button actuating end external surface is depressed inward by a pressure applied to the push-button element actuating end solid circular external surface disengaging the push-button element cogs from the cap element cogs and unlocking the push-button, locking hinge assembly; andwherein once the push-button element actuating end external surface returns to a neutral position by the action of the undepressed resilient spring when the pressure is withdrawn from the push-button element actuating end solid circular external surface, the push-button element cogs re-engage the cap element cogs and lock the push-button, locking hinge assembly into the adjusted pivoted position between the base element and the cap element about the central longitudinal axis. 2. The push-button, locking hinge assembly of claim 1, further comprising: an aperture centered on the base geometric end; a threaded opening on the push-button actuating end internal surface, and a threaded fastener sized to correspond to the threaded opening and join the base to the push-button by insertion of the threaded fastener into the assembly through the aperture centered on the base geometric end and extending along the central longitudinal axis within the resilient spring; wherein adjustment of the length of threaded fastener received by the push-button actuating end by rotation of the threaded fastener causes the push-button actuating end to protrude from a component surface receiving each cast geometric end or be flush with the component surface. 3. The push-button, locking hinge assembly of claim 1, wherein the cap element solid cast geometric end and the base element solid cast geometric end comprise geometric shapes selected from the group consisting of ovals, oblongs, triangles, squares, rectangles, pentagons, hexagons, heptagons, octagons, and other multi-sided polygons capable of securely holding the push-button, locking hinge assembly between corresponding external member components and transferring directional forces applied to the external member components to the push-button, locking hinge assembly. 4. A push-button, locking hinge assembly comprising, in combination: a) a first housing comprising: an octagonal end; an open end; a cylindrical length comprising an internal surface, an external surface, and a recess between the first housing octagonal end and the first housing open end; a plurality of uniform cogs evenly spaced along the cylindrical length internal surface from the open end so that each cog length is disposed equidistant from and parallel to a central longitudinal axis, and each cog is sized to fit and receive similarly disposed cogs along a push-button cylindrical body external surface; and an annular groove around the first housing cylindrical length external surface, the annular groove defining a plane transverse to the central longitudinal axis;b) a second housing comprising: an octagonal end comprising a centered aperture; an open end sized to receive and hold the first housing open end; a cylindrical length comprising an external surface, an internal surface, and a recess between the second housing octagonal end and the second housing open end; a plurality of uniform cogs of evenly spaced along the cylindrical length internal side proximate to the second housing octagonal end so that each cog length is disposed equidistant from and parallel to a central longitudinal axis, and each cog is sized to fit and receive the cogs along a push-button cylindrical body external surface; and an annular groove around the second housing cylindrical length internal surface, the annular groove defining a plane transverse to the central longitudinal axis;c) a push-button member comprising: a cylindrical body sized to be housed within the first housing and the second housing, the cylindrical body comprising an external surface, an internal surface, a recess, and an actuating end comprising a solid circular external surface sized to extend through the second housing octagonal end centered aperture to expose the push-button to allow operation of the button, an internal surface comprising a recess; and a plurality of cogs evenly spaced along the push-button member cylindrical body external surface so that each cog length is disposed equidistant from and parallel to a push-button member cylindrical body central longitudinal axis;d) an O-ring sized to be received in a channel formed by the annular groove around the first housing cylindrical length external surface and the annular groove around the second housing cylindrical length internal surface once the first housing open end is received into the second housing open end; ande) at least one restoration member comprising a length and an aperture centered through the restoration member length, the restoration member sized to be received between the first housing octagonal end and the push-button member actuating end internal surface recess along the central longitudinal axis;wherein the push-button, locking hinge assembly provides a locking feature when the push-button element actuating end external surface is in a disengaged, neutral position and the push-button element cogs simultaneously engage the base element cogs and the cap element cogs thus locking the hinge assembly and preventing any pivot between the first housing and the second housing about the central longitudinal axis;wherein the push-button, locking hinge assembly provides a 360 degree pivot feature around the O-ring between the second housing and the first housing, the pivot action being along a plane transverse to the central longitudinal axis and about the central longitudinal axis, when the push-button actuating end external surface is depressed inward disengaging the push-button element cogs from the cap element cogs and unlocking the hinge assembly; andwherein once the push-button element actuating end external surface returns to a neutral position by the action of the restoration member when the pressure is withdrawn from the push-button element actuating end external surface, the push-button element cogs re-engage the second housing cogs and lock the hinge assembly into the adjusted pivoted position between the first housing and the second housing about the central longitudinal axis. 5. The push-button, locking hinge assembly of claim 4, further comprising: an aperture centered on first housing octagonal end; a threaded opening on the push-button actuating end internal surface recess, and a threaded fastener sized to correspond to the threaded opening and join the first housing to the push-button element by insertion of the threaded fastener into the assembly through the aperture centered on the base geometric end and extending along the central longitudinal axis within the restoration member; wherein adjustment of the length of threaded fastener received by the push-button actuating end by rotation of the threaded fastener causes the push-button actuating end to protrude from a corresponding aperture in a component surface receiving the second housing octagonal end or be flush with the component surface. 6. A push-button, locking hinge assembly comprising, in combination: a) a rotatable housing comprising (i) two separate housing ends, each separate housing end sized to be press-fitted into and held by separate components to provide a pivot point between the separate components along a rotatable housing central longitudinal axis, each separate housing end comprising internal and external surfaces, and one rotatable housing end comprising an aperture from an external surface to an internal surface; (ii) a first cylindrical length between the rotatable housing ends, the cylindrical length comprising a first external surface and a first internal surface, and a first recess, the cylindrical length attached to the rotatable housing end comprising the aperture from the external surface to the internal surface, whereby the first external surface defines a space between the separate components once the rotatable housing has been press-fitted to and held by the separate components; (iii) a push-button element within the rotatable housing, the push-button element comprising a cylindrical body sized to be housed within the rotatable housing, the cylindrical body comprising an external surface, an internal surface, a recess, and a cylindrical actuating end sized to be accessed and activated through the rotatable housing end comprising the aperture, the push-button actuating end comprising an internal surface; (iv) resilient restoration member within the rotatable housing and disposed along the rotatable housing central longitudinal axis, the resilient restoration member contacting the rotatable housing end opposite the rotatable housing aperture end and the push-button actuating end internal surface;b) locking means along the rotatable housing central longitudinal axis to contact the push-button element and the rotatable housing ends in a first position and to contact the push-button element and the rotatable housing end without the access aperture to the push-button element actuating end in a second position; andc) pivot means to rotate an unlocked housing end 360 degrees about the locked rotatable housing end along a plane orthogonal to the housing central longitudinal axis;whereby pressure applied to the push-button actuating end provides the locking means second position;whereby the locking means second position provides 360 degrees of rotation of the separate component attached to the rotatable housing end with access aperture to the push-button element actuating end along a plane orthogonal to the housing central longitudinal axis about the rotatable housing end without the access aperture to the push-button element actuating end; andwhereby the locking means first position locks the push-button, locking hinge assembly and the separate components into a fixed arrangement along the rotatable housing central longitudinal axis. 7. The push-button, locking hinge assembly of claim 6, wherein the rotatable housing end without the access aperture to the push-button element actuating end further comprises an second extended cylindrical length comprising a second internal surface, a second external surface comprising a second annular groove around the second cylindrical length external surface, and a second recess, and wherein the first internal surface comprises a first annular groove around the first cylindrical length internal surface, wherein the a second external surface is sized to be received by the first internal surface such that the first annular groove and the second annular groove are aligned to provide a channel orthogonal to the housing central longitudinal axis. 8. The push-button, locking hinge assembly of claim 7, wherein the pivot means to rotate an unlocked rotatable housing end 360 degrees about the locked rotatable housing end along a plane orthogonal to the housing central longitudinal axis comprises an O-ring housed with the channel. 9. The push-button, locking hinge assembly of claim 8 further comprising an O-ring lubricant to maintain the ease of motion for the pivot means to rotate an unlocked rotatable housing end 360 degrees about the locked rotatable housing end along a plane orthogonal to the rotatable housing central longitudinal axis. 10. The push button, locking hinge assembly of claim 7, wherein the locking means along the rotatable housing central longitudinal axis to contact the push-button element and the rotatable housing ends in a first position and to contact the push-button element and the rotatable housing end without the access aperture to the push-button element actuating end in a second position comprises evenly spaced and sized cog lengths along the first internal surface, along the second internal surface, and along the push-button element cylindrical body external surface, the cog lengths disposed equidistant from and parallel to the central longitudinal axis. 11. The push-button, locking hinge assembly of claim 10, wherein the rotatable housing ends, push-button element, and cogs comprise materials selected from the group consisting of brushed aluminum, high strength carbon-composites, steel, stainless steel, and any similar light weight, high strength metal alloys. 12. The push button, locking hinge assembly of claim 7, further comprising means to adjust the push-button element actuating end alignment with a separate component surface. 13. The push button, locking hinge assembly of claim 12, wherein means to adjust the push-button element actuating end alignment with a separate component surface comprises: a) an aperture centered on the rotatable housing end without the access aperture to the push-button element actuating end;b) a threaded opening on the push-button actuating end internal surface recess; andc) a threaded fastener sized to correspond to the threaded opening and join the housing end without the access aperture to the push-button element actuating end to the push-button element by insertion of the threaded fastener into the assembly through the aperture centered on the rotatable housing end without the access aperture to the push-button element actuating end and extending along the central longitudinal axis within the resilient restoration member;wherein adjustment of the length of threaded fastener received by the push-button element internal surface recess by rotation of the threaded fastener positions the push-button actuating end to protrude from a corresponding aperture in a component surface receiving the rotatable housing end with the access aperture to the push-button element actuating end or be flush with the component surface. 14. The push-button, locking hinge assembly of claim 6, wherein the resilient restoration member within the housing comprises a spring.
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